Events
Excellent Sport: A Shakespeare Game Show
Virtual EventTest your knowledge of Shakespeare! Our most excellent game show will be hosted by Professors Julia Lupton (UCI English) and Sean Keilen (UCSC Literature). Additional revels will be hosted by Professor Eli Simon (UCI Drama). Enjoy a festival of questions designed to enlighten and amuse, interspersed with scenes from Shakespeare and music inspired by the […]
A Year Ago Today: Communities Reflect on the CZU Lightening Complex Fires
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History“As a way to begin talking about the disaster, we invited people to bring in objects found in the ashes of their homes to be photographed and to tell us the stories these objects conjure. The objects salvaged from the ashes and the stories that emerge, build, one to the next, revealing details of daily […]
Slugs and Steins: The Neurodiversity Perspective of Autism: What it is and How it Matters
Virtual EventAccording to the neurodiversity perspective some neurocognitive differences that are taken to be disorders should instead be understood as forms of human diversity. Proponents of this perspective, as it applies to autism, claim that autism is an ineliminable aspect of an autistic person’s identity and that atypical functioning and modes of experience associated with autism […]
Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope
Virtual EventThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, presents its second-ever virtual season over two weekends in Summer 2021: July 31-August 1, and August 7-8. Cabrillo Festival’s presentation of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer’s INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope is the culmination of an extensive SF […]
Violins of Hope + Intonations Discussion Panel
Virtual EventThe Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, America’s longest-running festival of new orchestral music, presents its second-ever virtual season over two weekends in Summer 2021: July 31-August 1, and August 7-8. "Violins of Hope + Intonations Discussion Panel" is a dynamic live-streamed conversation offering insights about the Violins of Hope and the creation of Intonations, the […]
The 40th Annual Dickens Universe featuring A Christmas Carol
Virtual EventThe Dickens Universe is an annual gathering of scholars, teachers, and members of the general public who share a love of Dickens's writings and his era. In 2021, the Universe will feature A Christmas Carol. Because of public health concerns and to ensure the safety of its participants, the 2021 Universe will take place online […]
Opening today: Santa Cruz Shakespeare 2021 Season
The Audrey Stanley Grove in Delaveaga Park 501 Upper Park Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe are thrilled to announce that Santa Cruz Shakespeare will be back to live, in-person performances this Summer! Tickets are on sale now! Capacity will be limited, and safety measures will be in place to ensure a fun time for everyone. Plays in the year's season: RII: Text by William Shakespeare Conceived and Adapted by […]
Jody Greene – The Great Reset: University Teaching and Learning after COVID
Virtual EventThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many permanent changes in college teaching and learning. The pandemic has not only precipitated but also accelerated changes already underway at UCSC and elsewhere—from technological enhancements to trauma-informed teaching. Join Professor Jody Greene in conversation with Stephanie Chan, UCSC alumna and Foothill College professor. Chan and Greene will discuss […]
Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants
Virtual EventBookshop Santa Cruz presents #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan for a discussion of his new book, This Is Your Mind on Plants, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants—and the equally powerful taboos. Please note: This Is Your Mind on […]
Open Now – Out of the Ashes: Stories from the CZU Lightning Complex Fires
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSet upon a historical archive of art, objects, and stories from communities affected by the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fires, for decades the MAH has archived and stored oral histories, artifacts, and more from the natural disasters that have impacted the history of our community. This collection has allowed Santa Cruz County historians and educators […]